Folding chair



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E. L. GAY LORD.

FOLDING CHAIR. 330225 Patented Nov. 10, 18815,

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EDWARD L. GAYLORD, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

FOLDING CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Isettera Patent No. 330,225, dated November 10, 1885.

Application filed February 7, 1885. Serial No. 155,179. (Model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD L. GAYLORD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Chairs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in folding chairs, and has for its object to provide a device of this description, readily manipulated and economical in construction; and with these ends in view my invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter fully explained, and then specifically designated by the claims.

That those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may fully understand my invention, I will proceed to describe it in detail, referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a back view, showing two chairs mounted upon a single standard, one chair being in a folded position; Fig. 2, a plan view,

the chairs being in the same position as at Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a detail perspective showing the locking mechanism.

Similar letters denote like parts in all figures of the drawings.

A is the standard, and B the back frame swivelly attached to said standard by means of the spindle C. The seat-frame D is pivoted at its inner extremities between ears E F on the back and front, respectively, of the standard.

G is a curved slot out in the ear E. The rear inner corner of the back frame is rounded, as seen at H, to correspond to the curve of said slot, and at the base of this rounded portion is formed an inwardly-extending recess, I.

J is a hook rigidly secured to or formed integral with the inner rear portion of the seatframe. This hook projects withinthe slot G, and overlaps the back frame, as shown, when the latter is in an open position. When the hook is at the bottom of the slot, and opposite to the recess 1, it of course does not overlap the back frame, and the latter may be readily swung forward into a closed position.

From the foregoing the operation of my invention is obviously as follows: When it is desired to fold the chair, the seat-frame is grasped at the outer end and swung on its pivotal points inward. During this operation the hook will travel through the slot until the seat-frame has reached a vertical position, when said hook will be opposite to the recess I and the back frame be free to swing inward.

K is a coil-spring arranged around the.

spindle, and with its free ends secured to the spindle and standard, respectively, so that the back frame will swing inwardly auto matically by virtue of the spring.

The seat proper, when fixed in the seatframe, will afford a stop (by its abutting against the back frame while the latter is revolving) to prevent the seat frame from dropping forward to too great an angle from the perpendicular, and thereby throwing the hook upward within the slot, so that said hook cannot enter the recess in the back frame when the latter has been swung clear back.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a pair of folding chairs mounted upon a single standard, the back frames swiveled to the standard, and with the rear inner corners rounded and recessed, as described, in combination with the seat-frames pivoted at the front and rear of their inner ends to the standard, and having hooks projecting backward within curved slots formed within ears projecting upward at the back of the standard, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the standard constructed with ears projecting upward from the rear thereof, and having curved slots, of the back frames swiveled to the standard and having their inner rear corners rounded, and with recesses cut therein, and the seat-frames pivoted to the standard, and having hook projections extending through said slots and adapted to overlap the back frames in their normal or open position, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination of the standard A, having ears E F, the former of which have curved In testimony whereof I affix my signature in slots G, back frames, B, swiveled to said standpresen ceof ,two wit nesses.

ard and roundedat' their rearinn'e'r corners,

and provided with recesses I, and seat-frames 5 D, pivoted between said ears and provided with hooks J, projecting through said slots and overlapping the back frames, substantially as described.

EDWARD L. GAY-LORD.

' Witnesses:

S. S. WILLIAMSON, W. T. HAYILAND. 

